Good Friday morning!
The weekend is almost here. Early voting is surging, door-knocking is all the rage, and the special session is all but dead. The Homeland Security secretary was in the state warning about cartel activity, and Kamala endorses Mary. Weird week? You bet. I’ll have more at www.thealaskastory.com today, including information about where to vote early this weekend and a murder mystery that boggles the mind.
Thanks for spending part of your Friday with The Alaska Story.
~ Suzanne
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🎙️ Top story
🕵️♀️ DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin visited Alaska. In an exclusive interview, he warned about cartels moving north and shared a great Don Young story. Read more.
We loved 💕that Homeland Security posted our interview on X:
Also today…
🥹With endorsements like this, who needs enemies? Kamala burdens Mary Peltola with what has been. Read more.
🗳️Early voting surges over what we saw in the 2024 primary, as campaigns push supporters to the polls. Read more.
🌊 High, then dry: The Mendenhall River crested, then subsided without major flooding…this time. Read more.
Dunleavy introduces compromise gasline bill, with 2% S-corp tax. Read more. And then things went south …
🍴Put a fork in it. This legislative special session is done. Read more.
🤖 The Alaska Story investigation: Another Anthropic connection as Bill Hill taps Big AI money. Read more.
🤡Alaska Story investigation: Anti-Sullivan group uses Lower 48 footage to lecture Alaskans about Alaska. Clown world. Read more.
🍪 The Alaska Story investigation: Bill Hill’s max donor Phoebe Gates is caught up in cookie stuffing scandal. Read more.
😇 Dahlstrom files ethics complaint against Rep. Zack Fields over his comparing a state worker to a Nazi. Read more.
Angela Rodell writes about what taxpayers will lose when the city of Juneau sells City Hall to Sealaska Heritage Institute. Read more.
David Ignell writes about how Bernadette Wilson has the qualities of leadership that he looks for. Read more.
Win Gruening: Exempting nonprofits that run retail stores in downtown Juneau from sales taxes is unfair to other taxpayers. Read more.
🚔 Former SPLC director arrested in widening federal fraud case. How was Alaska impacted? We remember. Read more.
Today’s Number
100,000
Number of glaciers in Alaska, about half of all the glaciers on Earth.
The Alaska Story Exclusives:
Insiders are wondering why candidate Treg Taylor gave his campaign $550,000 in the last 30 days when APOC clearly has a $5,000 limit. How does he get away with this? No APOC investigation? Seems cooked.
No offense, white liberal women, but …
Fox poll Rogers vs. el Sayed in Michigan:
White men, no college degree: Rogers 63 el Sayed 37
White men, college degree: Rogers 55 el Sayed 43
White women, no college degree: Rogers 60 el Sayed 38
White women, college degree: Rogers 37 el Sayed 60
Suzanne’s notebook:
Anchorage Republican Women’s Club didn't endorse in the governor’s race, which is a messy mess, but did endorse these other candidates:
US Senate: Dan Sullivan
US Congress: Nick Begich
Anchorage/ER Senate Seats
District E: Gretchen Stoddard
Anchorage/ER House Seats
District 23: Jamie Allard (incumbent. Don’t let the other Republicans in that race fool you. They are not conservative or at least the people behind them aren’t.)
District 16: Liz Vasquez
District 15: Mia Costello (incumbent)
District 11: Julie Coulombe (incumbent)
District 9: John Boyle
District 21: Aimee Sims
District 18: Daniel Sager
‘Sup, Anchorage?
Quote of the Day
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
~ Ronald Reagan
Today’s meme:
Oil out, money in
Alaska North Slope crude: ~$88.27/barrel / 478,279 barrels/day
Alaska Permanent Fund balance: Aug. 6: $91,858,600,000
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~ Suzanne
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